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Racewalking Stamps Around the World

Racewalking has featured on many postage stamps from various
countries around the
world. This brief overview is taken from a series of articles I
published in the Heel & Toe newsletter in 2012. Special thanks to
Alex Wijsman, Vic Miller and Margaret and Ian Beaumont for their expert philatelic help.

1954
- San Marino

The very first stamps to feature the sport of racewalking, as far as I
know, were issued by San Marino on 28 August 1954. The two, of denominations 1
Lire and 80 Lire, featured the same design but were of different
colours.

Given that there were also Postal Cards released, showing the Italian walker Guiseppe Dordoni and featuring this stamp (see http://www.vrwc.org.au/vrwcpostmarks.shtml), I think we can safely say that the walker on the stamp is in fact Dordoni.

The stamps were released in conjunction with the sixth International Stamp
Fair being held in Riccione in San Marino. This stamp fair is still held annually in Riccione - wow!

1957
- Dominican Republic : Former Olympic Champions - Ugo Frigerio

In celebration of the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne, the
Dominican Republic issued a set of eight attractively engraved
stamps on January 24, 1957. The set included five regular postage
issues and three airmail stamps. The stamps honoured former Olympic
greats
and their nation's flag.

One of the stamps features the great Italian triple Olympic gold
medallist Ugo Frigerio who won the racewalks in the 1920 and 1924
Games. This is one of 3 stamps that feature Frigerio. Keep reading to
find out about the other two.

This Ugo Frigerio stamp was issued twice more, each time with a different overprint.
The first re-issue featured the words 'Asistencia Refugiados Hungaros
1957' - Help to the people of Hungary 1957. Leaflets were also issued
in the Dominican Republic at the same time.
The second re-issue was in 1959 and featured the words 'III Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos' - III Pan American Games.

1957
- Dominican Republic : Former Olympic Champions - Ugo Frigerio

As mentioned above, some of the 1957 Dominican Republic
stamps were re-issued later in 1957 in response to the USSR's invasion
of Hungary. The envelope on the left shows the re-release. The writing
at the bottom says:

The General Assembly ...
condemns the violation of the Charter which commits the Government of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by depriving Hungary of its
liberty and independence and the Hungarian people the exercise of their
fundamental rights ... 12 December 1956

1957
- Dominican Republic : Full Set of Former Olympic Champions

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of
the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western
third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making
Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two
countries.

The full set of 8 Olympic stamps are shown on the left. The stamps
honour

The Dominican Republic issued a second set of Olympic stamps later in
1957. This set featured some of the 1956 Olympic Gold Medallists.

This stamp featured 1956 Olympic 50km winner Norm Read of NZ. But to
his left is seen British walker Don Thompson and on his right is
Australian walker Ron Crawford.

This was the first time an Australian walker had featured on a postage
stamp.

1957
- Dominican Republic : 1956 Olympic Champions

In celebration of the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia (equestrian events held in Stockholm Sweden), the
Dominican Republic issued this attractively engraved set of eight mint
stamps in 1957. The set includes five regular postage issues and three
airmail stamps. The stamps honor former Olympic greats and their
nation's flag:

This partial copy of the stamp set is signed by Norman Read so it a real collector's piece. Owner Alex Wijsman explains:

This cover was signed by Norman
Read when he was in Europe. Harold ven Beek fixed it for me. Norman was
surprised and liked it very much. He said: "This is the first time that
I have signed such a thing." A few months later he died.

1960
- Liberia : Rome Olympic Games - walking

Liberia produced a very impressive set of 4 stamps to commemorate the
1960 Olympics in Rome. One of the four featured the racewalk and showed
how it has come about from the simplest of human activities - walking.

1960
- Liberia : Rome Olympic Games - Full Set

The full set features weight lifting, rowing, walking and javelin and
show how they have all evolved from the traditional activities of the
local people.

1960
- San Marino

In 1960, San Marino released another racewalking stamp as part of a
collection of 14 stamps celebrating the Rome Olympics of that year.

I can't say that the style looks very good!

1960
- San Marino : The Full Set

The full set of 14 Olympic stamps featured hockey,
cycling, basketball, soccer, fencing,
gymnastics, boxing, shooting, swimming, equestrian, rowing and three
Track and Field disciplines - sprinting, shotput and racewalking.

1965
- Japan

This 1965 Japanese stamp was brought out to celebrate the tenth
National Athletics Meet. And is shows a racewalker!

Vic
Miller comments: "Not the face/head necessarily, Tim, but the rest of
the race walker depicted on this stamp is likely yet again Volodymyr
Holubnychy - note the familiar "Vladimir Golubnichy" long stride(s) and
trademark hip action."

I agree with Vic on this one. While it
looks like a composite sketch, the lower body is definitely Golubnichy
like. And the year 1965 is also from the Golubnichy era.

1968
- Luxembourg

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,a small landlocked country bordered by
Belgium, France, and Germany, is into producing fine stamps and
released a series of 6 stamps to celebrate the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
The set featured soccer, swimming, cycling, fencing, running and
racewalking.

The racewalking stamp features three racewalkers in full swing. The
stamp is actually a blue one so the colour in this print is not really
true.

Vic
Miller comments: "It includes a depiction of
Kenneth Matthews (#5) at the Tokyo Olympics. Matthews, who won a gold
medal at the '64 Summer Olympics, was the dominant 20km race walker of
the first half of the 1960s. I'm also confident that the race
walker seen to the far right is a composite mostly of Ronald Zinn in
the Tokyo Olympics 20km walk." Zinn was an American walker who also
competed in the Tokyo Olympic walk. A captain in the US Infantry, he
was killed in action in Vietnam the following year.

Interestingly, Frigerio's corner shows a runner! And it spells his
first name as Ugon. Does this make it even more of a collector's item?

This is the second of three stamps from different countries honouring
Frigerio.

1971 - Ajman: 1972 Olympics

The Emirate of Ajman is one of the seven current states constituting
the United Arab Emirates. With an area of just 260 square kilometres,
it is the smallest of the emirates by area. Ajman issued its first
stamps on 20 June 1964. The shaikhdom agreed to join the United Arab
Emirates on December 2, 1971. The UAE took responsibility for postal
operations on 1 August 1972. Hence it issued stamps from only 1964 to
1972. This set, issued on 22 February 1971, was in honour of the 1972
Olympics in Munich and featured 16 ordinary stamps (in the form of a
sheetlet), 4 airmail stamps (in the form of a sheetlet) and a miniature
sheet. One of the 16 small stamps was labelled LONG WALK and features
racewalking.

The miniature sheet featured a single large denomination pole vault stamp.

15 rl - Pole vault

1972 - Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in the far north-eastern part of India. The 16th
State of the Indian Union, it was established on December 1, 1963.

It has regularly produced very colourful stamps and the one shown on
the left is a good example. It is one of 8 stamps produced in 1972 to
honour the Munich Olympics.

The full set featured Shotput, Racewalk, Javelin, Wrestling, Boxing, Weightlifting, Diving and Basketball.

1973 and 1974 - Nagaland

Alex Wijsman has let me know of two further editions of the 1972
Nagaland 8 stamp sheetlet described above, one in 1973 to recognize
Scouts Day and one in 1974 to honour the Football World Cup in Munich.
These two re-issues featured the same 8 stamps which were overprinted
with additional words.

The 1973 overprint says
SCOUTS DAY
1973

The 1974 overprint says
WORLD CUP
MUNICH 1974
Football Championships

1976
- Nederland

Although not a racewalking stamp, this Dutch stamp was produced to mark
the 60th anniversary of the famous Nijmegen 4 Day March, in which many
European racewalkers have competed over the years.

1978
- DPR Korea

North Korea produced this stamp featuring 1924 Olympic Racewalk winner
Ugo Frigerio. This is the third stamp featuring this famous champion
who won both racewalk golds in 1920 and another gold in 1924 - 3 golds
in total!

It was one of a series of stamps chronicling the Olympic Games History
and it's gold medal winners.

1978
- France : Sport For All

This French stamp, issued in 1978 with the theme 'Sport for All'
features a racewalker amongst the collage of sportsmen. Other sports
include cycling, swimming, boxing, cross country skiing and sprinting.

Vic Miller has analysed this stamp as follows:

"It
appears to me that it's a composite of a pair of race walkers culled
from a photo of a moment during the early track segment of the 1974
European Championships' 20km walk. I'm confident that the upper portion
of the race walker is Volodymyr Holubnychy (often written as "Vladimir
Golubnichy"), and the bottom portion - from the waist down - is that of
Peter Frenkel, if I'm not mistaken.The shot putter depicted is also
likely a composite - drawn mostly from a photo of Yevgeniy Mironov at
the Montreal Olympics if I'm not mistaken. To emphasize my observation,
note the 15th, 16th and 17th images in the following sequence of frames:http://throwing.narod.ru/im/teory_ph/kinogramm/mironov.jpg."

1978 – Isle of Man

One of a set of two stamps issued by the Isle of Man to celebrate the
1978 Commonwealth Games in Canada. The other stamp featured the Isle of
Man emblem but this one featured a swimmer, a cyclist and a walker.

1980
- Central African Republic

In
1980, the Central African Republic released a sheetlet of 6 Olympic
stamps, each featuring a different Olympic discipline - racewalk,
4x400m relay, 100m run, high jump, boxing and hurdles.

The racewalking stamp features Domingo Colin, Daniel Bautista and Peter
Frenkel. The picture was taken from a photo of the three who were at
the time contesting the 20km racewalk event at the 1976 Montreal
Olympics. The other stamps also feature 1976 Olympic athletes.

This sheetlet was re-released in 1981 but was overprinted to document
the winners of each of these events at the 1980 Olympics. The
overprints read

There are two different colour overprints, one in red and one in
gold. So that means that in total, there are 3 different
scenarios for each stamp - plain, red overprint and yellow overprint.
The 3 different walks stamps are shown opposite.

1980
- Repubic of Niger

This stamp, produced by the Republic of Niger (Africa) in the leadup to
the 1980 Olympic Games, features the top two Mexican walkers Daniel
Bautista and Raul Gonzales, who were amongst the medal favouries for
Moscow. Vic has confirmed that the photo was actually taken at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and shows the walkers leaving Le
Stade Olympique. The two walkers onscured at the back are Domingo Colin (also of Mexico) and Peter Frenkel (GDR).

Mexican race walkers were the reigning Lugano Cup champions and held
the world records over both the 20km and the 50km distances going into
the 1980 Games but only Raul Gonzalez managed to complete a walk at the
Moscow Olympics. Both Domingo Colin and Daniel Bautista were
disqualified in the "20" and the trio of Gonzalez, Martin Bermudez and
Bautista failed to finish the "50"!

The
20km walk was won by Mario DaMilano of Italy. Consequently, this stamp was
re-released after the Games with his name overstamped.

1980
- Republic of Niger

The 1980 Niger Stamp was also released in sheetlet form with the stamp
imprint surrounded by a blue background wallpaper showing the 1980
Olympic symbol.

Alex advises that the stamp was issued in at least one more sheetlet
with a different background colour but that one is very rare and very
expensive and he does not have it.

1980
- USSR

This stylized walker was one of a series of Olympic Track and Field
stamps produced by the USSR to mark the Moscow Olympics in 1980. The
full set of stamps is actually a fantastic one which I have reproduced
below.

1980
- USSR

The full set of Olympic Track and Field stamps issued by the USSR in
1980 to celebrate the Games in Moscow. What a superb collection!

1984 - Bolivia

Bolivia didn't win a walks medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los
Angeles but they did have a walker in both the 20km and 50km walk
events – Morejon finished 36th in the 20km and was a DNF in the 50km.

Their 1984 Olympic stamp featured Ernesto Canto of Mexico who won the
Olympic 20km walk.

1984 – Nagaland

Another stamp from Nagaland, this one celebrating the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

The stamp shows action from the 1972 Olympic 20km event in Munich. East
German walker Peter Frenkel (the eventual winner) is shown walking
behind English walker Paul Nihill who came sixth.

The full set of 8 stamps featured the racewalk, shotput, skiing, long
jump, water polo, men's relay run, high jump and circular run (might
have been 1500m).

1984
- France

This French 4 Franc Commemorative Stamp, released on 1 June 1984,
celebrates the Los Angeles Olympic Games and the centenary of the
I.O.C. and features a Track and Field montag which includes racewalking.

1985 - Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of
the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western
third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making
Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two
countries.

This stamp celebrates the 7th National Games which were held in 1985 in
Moca, the capital of Espaillat province in the Dominican Republic.

1985 - Paraguay

I recently came across what looked like a 1985 Paraguay stamp featuring
Mexican walker Raul Gonzales. But was it a real stamp – I had noticed
it did not have a monetary denomination on it.

I ran it past our expert Alex Wijsman who explained it as follows

In 1985, Paraguay issued a sheet with 5 stamps featuring 1984 Olympic
Gymnastics gold medalist Mary Lou Retton. The sheet also featured
pictures of 4 other gold medalists from those Games - Claudia Losch
(West Germany, women’s shotput), Raul Gonzales (Mexico, 50km walk),
Peter Seisenbacher (Austria, Judo Middleweight) and Joaquim Cruz
(Brazil, 800m run). The last four are not stamps as they do not have a
denomination. Israel also often issued stamps together with pictures in
this same way. They are still very collectable philatelic items.

For the record, Gonzalez set an Olympic record winning the 50-kilometer event at 3:47:26.

1986
- Isle of Man

The Isle of Man Post Office produced a set of stamps for the
Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986 - a swimmer, a cyclist, a
shooter and a race-walker. These had been the strongest sports for the
IOM in previous Games. The walker depicted was Phil Bannan - the first
Manx walker to be selected to represent GB (as a junior in the 60's).

1988- Pakistan

To commemorate the 1988 Olympics being held in Seoul from September 17
to October 2, 1988, the Pakistan Post Office Department issued a set of
10 stamps, each of value Rs 10, on September 17, 1988. The stamps
represented different events, sports and games of the XXIV OLYMPICS.
This one featured a collage which included a racewalker.

1989
- Kampuchea

We
thought that this stamp, produced by Kampuchea to celebrate the 1992
Barcelona Olympic Games, featured a racewalker. However, Gibbons, the
definitive Stamp Guide, says that this is a runner. It is part of a set
of stamps featuring Gymnastics, Shotput, Running, Fencing, Canoeing,
Hurding and Weightlifting.

Yes, now that you inspect it more closely, it does look more like a
runner!

1992 - Tuvalu ?

I've known about this stamp for a while but this is the first time I
have seen it. It features walkers from the 1987 IAAF World Championship
race in Rome. Women's racewalking was added to the Olympic in 1992 so
perhaps that is why this stamp was produced at that stage and an
archival shot used. This photo is also featured on the IAAF Judging
Handbook of that period. I believe that this stamp was withdrawn
from circulation by Tuvalu and hence it is quite rare.

This stamp, issued by Antigua and Barbuda, was released for the
Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992 and features the 20km Walk for Men.

Vic is confident the image was culled from a photo of either the "20"
or "50" at the Moscow Olympics - with both Daniel Bautista (#488) and
Raul Gonzalez (#483?) clearly visible in the group.

1992 - Maldives

The Maldives is an island nation in the Indian Ocean consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls.

In 1992, it also issued a stamp celebrating the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and it also featured a racewalker.

1992 - Gambia

Gambia put out this 1992 Olympics stamp honouring Jose Pedraza of
Mexico who won the first ever Mexican Olympic medal (a silver) in
the 1968 20km Walk in Mexico City. However, the drawing shows Volodymyr
Golubnichy of USSR who won the gold ahead of him – he was wearing the
red soviet top, white shorts and white cap and blue adidas runners. I
have the photo which shows the finish. Interesting! A mistake like this
makes a stamp even more collectible.

1994 - St.
Vincent & the Grenadines

This stamp features gold medallist Peter Frenkel of East Germany who
won the 20km walk at the 1972 Munich Olympics. It celebrates 100 Years
of the Olympic Committee so I am guessing it was produced in 1994. On
the stamp you read the name of Peter Frennel instead of Peter Frenkel.
Again, a collector's item due to to the error.

1996
- Latvia

This Latvian stamp was produced in 1996 to commemorate the Olympic
Games of that year.

1996 - Guyana

This stamp was one of 4 produced by Guyana to mark the 1996 Olympics.
The writing on this stamp reads “20K Walk first introduced in 1956
olympics. LEONID SPIRIN of Russia was the gold medal winner.”
The picture is not from the 1956 Olympic race as the race numbers do
not
match. Spirin wore race number 24 in that event and race numbers 145
and 714 were not there either. The modern Adidas runners also
indicate a rendering of a more recent event. The partial walking figure
on the left looks to be in an Australian uniform which is interesting.
Michael Harvey has emailed me to say that he thinks it is from a photo
taken during the 1980 Olympic 20km walk in Moscow. I think he is right
as that particular Olympics featured these very large numbers without
any further motif on them.

Other stamps in the Guyana Olympic set featured

- Lars Hall, the winner of the 1952 Olympic Modern Pentathlon
- the 1996 Olympic Stadium
- The ancient Greek Olympic discipline of the Pancratium, a
mixture of extreme boxing and wrestling.

1996
- Ecuador

Jefferson Perez of Ecuador became the country's inaugural Olympic Gold
Medallist when he won the 20km walk in the Games of that year. It made
him a household name in that country and his feat was celebrated with
this postage stamp.

1998 - Malaysia

After the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia produced a
stamp sheetlet honouring their 10 gold medals from that meet – the
greatest ever Comm Games medal haul for that country. Amongst the gold
medallists was Govindaswamy Saravanan who beat more favoured opponents
to win the 50km walk. Here is his individual stamp, worth 30 Sen.

The race is forever etched into my memory because of its drama and
changing fortunes. The favourites – Dion Russell of Australia and Craig
Barrett of New Zealand – both failing to finish and the relatively
unknown Malaysian walker finishing in bare feet to claim gold. As a
post to this story, Saravanan announced after the win that he would be
retiring. True to his word, he has not raced internationally since.

1998 Malaysia

And here are the full set of all 10 gold medal stamps, released as a sheetlet.

2000 - Ecuador

We already know about the 1996 stamp put out be Ecuador to honour it's
gold medallist Jefferson Perez. But they also put out another Olympic
stamp in 2000 and it also featured Perez. It is from the XXVII (27th)
Olympiad in Sydney 2000 where he finished 4th in the 20km.

2000
- Poland

Poland produced a series of four stamps to celebrate the Summer
Olympics in Sydney in 2000. The stamps featured
- Running
- Platform diving, windsurfing, canoeing, sailing
- Pole vault, weightlifting, fencing
- Basketball, judo and walking.
The fourth stamp, shown here, featured Polish walker Robert
Korzeniowski (50km gold medal) in the collage.

2001
- Poland

In 2001, Poland produced a sheetlet of stamps celebrating one thousand
years of Polish history, culture and science from a 21st century
perspective. Every stamp is dedicated to a different field of life in
which landmark moments in history are compared with contemporary Polish
history.

Amongst the stamps is one featuring Robert Korzenioskil

2001
- Poland

In 2001, Poland produced a sheetlet of stamps celebrating one thousand
years of Polish history, culture and science from a 21st century
perspective. Every stamp is dedicated to a different field of life in
which landmark moments in history are compared with contemporary Polish
history.

This Portugese stamp, designed by Jose Luis Tinoco (his name is in the
bottom left corner), is one of a set of 8 stamps issued by that country
in 2002 to celebrate sport.

2004 - Greece

Greece put out this postal stamp celebrating the win by home town
walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka who won gold in the women's 20km walk at
the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Interestingly, Tsoumeleka was later
banned after failing a drugs test in 2008 and second placed Olympiada
Ivanova had previously sat out a 2 year drugs ban in 1997. Jane Saville
of Australia finished third in this Olympic walk.

2006
- Australia

Australia Post decided to issue a postage stamp for each winner in the
2004 Olympic Games. With Jane Saville and Nathan Deakes, getting bronze
medals in those Games, they came close but missed out.
Australia Post then decided to continue with this concept for the 2006
Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Since Jane won the women's 20km walk
and Nathan won the men's 20km and 50km events, they featured on the
gold medallist stamps (Jane once and Nathan twice). These are shown on
the left.
Australia Post did the same in the 2008 Olympic Games and Jared Tallent
came close to postage stamp fame with his bronze and silver medals.
With his win in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Jared should have
joined Nathan and Jane but, for reasons unknown, Australia Post did not
produce Gold Medal stamps for those Games.
They did produce them again for the 2012 Olympic Games and again Jared
went so close, finishing second in the 50km race. So close yet so far!

2007
- Ecuador

This stamp, featuring Jefferson Perez, was released by Ecuador on
December 18 2007 as part of a set of 5 commemorating the Pan-American
Games of that year. It was the second stamp from Ecuador to feature the
champion racewalker.

2007
- Ecuador

This is the full set of 5 40¢ stamps issued by Ecuador to celebrate
the
2007 Pan-American Games. The stamps feature Alexander Escobar and
Seledina Nieve (weightlifting),Jefferson Perez (walker), Xavier Moreno
(runner) and the Under 18 soccer team.

2008
- China

In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, hosts China produced stamps celebrating
each of their gold medallists - and that included Chinese walker Chen
Ding who became the first ever Chinese to win Olympic gold in a
racewalk event - the 20km.

2008 - France

In 2008. France issued a sheetlet of 10 stamps in celebration of the
2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. As you can see on the left, one of the
stamps featured a racewalker.

2008 - France

And here is the full 10 stamp sheetlet.

2008 - El Salvador

El Salvador released a 2008 Beijing Olympics stamp and sheetlet set in
July of that year. It featured 4 individual stamps and one sheetlet.
The second of the 4 individual stamps features a racewalker. The only
El Salvadorian woman walker of note at that time was Veronica Abigail
Colindres Garcia who represented El Salvador at the 2008 Summer
Olympics in the women's 20 km race walk and then went on to win a
silver medal for the 20km at the 2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup in
San Salvador. The 2008 Olympics saw a very small El Salvador team of 11
athletes (7 men and 4 women) competing in 9 sports. Colindres was one
of only 2 T&F athletes selected for those Games. Might it be her on
the stamp in question?

2010 - Asian Games - China

This Chinese stampsheet from the 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China,
features Chinese gold medallists from that meet. China won all 3 walks
medals at that meet (Wang Hao on the men's 20km - 1:20:50, Si Tianfeng
in the 50km - 3:47:04 and Liy Hong in the women's 20km -
1:30:06).

There is definitely one walker and I am guessing that the picture of
the athlete throwing water over his face is also a walker. In that
case, they would be Wang Hao and Si Tianfeng. It is not strictly a
stamp of a walker but a sheetlet which is nearly the same thing!

2013 - Mozambique

The African country of Mozambique released a set of 5 stamps on 25th
November 2013 to celebrate the IAAF World Athletics Championships in
Moscow.

The release featured 4 stamps highlighting sprints, high jump, pole
vault and hurdles as well as a separate sheetlet featuring the 50km
walk event.

2014 - Racewalking World Cup - China

This sheet was brought out by China to coincide with the staging of the
2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Taicang. It features 2012 Olympic
20km gold medallist Chen Ding.

2016 - Australia - Jared Tallent, 2012 Gold Medallist

On Friday 17 Jane 2016, a special ceremony was held in Melbourne,
Australia, to retrospectivly award the 2012 Olympic 50km gold medal to
Australian racewalker Jared Tallent. He had come 2nd in the race in
London but was upgraded to gold when the first placed Russian was outed
for drugs offences. He also became the new Olympic 50km record holder.

Australia Post has honoured all Australian Olympic gold medallists with
their own stamp since 2000 and also did the same for all gold
medallists in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Thus Jared
became eligible for his own stamp once his gold was confirmed by the
IOC.

This stamp came out almost immediately after the ceremony. In this, he
followed in the footsteps of Nathan Deakes and Jane Saville who were
similarly honoured for their 2006 Commonwealth Golds in Melbourne.

2016 - Isle of Man Rio Olympic Stamps

Isle of Man Post Office released a set of four Team GB stamps in
recognition of their participation in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The
four stamps showcased swimming, track cycling, race walking and
gymnastics which at London 2012, bought Team GB a combined medal haul
of 16.